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Eve: A Novel of the First Woman tells a story that most of us probably think we already knew. The Garden of Eden myth is a staple of Judeo/Christian teachings. But this author embellishes, inventing a story lush with character and plot, based on copious research. The bare bones are there: Adam and Eve eat of the forbidden fruit, God casts them o... more »ut of the Garden, their son Cain slays his brother Abel. But in Elliott's re-imagining of the myth, we meet a family--father, mother, their three sons, their three daughters--and a host of other characters, inhabitants of a nearby city, most likely a Sumerian one, who worship stone gods and cause much conflict in this tale of a mother desperately trying to regain her faith and thus redeem her family.« less